TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 Attorney General James Uthmeier has activated Florida\u2019s price gouging hotline following the state of emergency declaration issued Tuesday ahead of Tropical Storm Isaias.<\/p>\n
This comes as officials track the potential impacts of Isaias, which is expected to strengthen into a hurricane later this week and impact the Panhandle.<\/p>\n
[SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n During a storm-related state of emergency, Florida law prohibits excessive price increases on essential items, including food, gasoline, lumber, and water.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you see or suspect an unconscionable increase in the price of essential commodities, report it to our office here<\/a>,\u201d Uthmeier wrote on X.<\/p>\n Anyone who suspects price gouging can report it to the Florida Attorney General\u2019s Office by visiting MyFloridaLegal.com<\/a> or calling 1 (866) 9NO-SCAM.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 Attorney General James Uthmeier has activated Florida\u2019s price gouging hotline following the state of emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,28,166557,166556,16834,38806,166560,348,116,351,118,117,4260,349,97021,166561,166562,166558,350,18522,166171,346,166559,345],"class_list":["post-422023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-florida","tag-florida-activates-price-gouging-hotline","tag-florida-activates-price-gouging-hotline-ahead-of-a-possible-severe-weather","tag-florida-attorney-generals-office","tag-florida-hurricane","tag-florida-price-gouging","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-james-uthmeier","tag-northeast-florida","tag-price-gouging","tag-price-gouging-helene","tag-price-gouging-hotline","tag-price-gouging-report","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-state-of-emergency","tag-tropical-storm-isaias","tag-wfox","tag-where-to-report-price-gouging","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}